Minilesson Resources
Phonemic Awareness:
Reading Resource -
Phonemic Awareness Games
Phonological Awareness is Child's Play!
Sight Words:
K12 Reader: Reading Instruction Resources - This article presents a range of strategies for teaching sight words through visual, auditory and hands-on activities.
From Education.com, this page offers ideas for creating numerous sight word games.
From Make, Take, Teach - 10 activities for practicing letters and sounds.
Decoding:
From SEDL (Southwest Educational Development Lab): this page lists nine different activities that would work well as mini-lessons for teaching decoding strategies to emerging and developing readers.
Decoding Multi-Syllabic Words: from Scholastic.com, this article shares ideas for multi-sensory lessons on the concepts of syllables, the six common spelling patterns, and understanding closed syllables as the foundation for helping children solve longer words.
ASCD Website, Chapter 2: Phonics and Decoding from Threads of Reading: Discusses the foundational thread of phonics in reading instruction and offers many, many ideas for lesson starters.
Teaching Syllable Segmentation: form Teaching With a Mountain View, ideas to use for mini-lessons on syllable segmentation to support word solving and decoding.
Vocabulary:
Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings: from ReadingRockets.org
Context Clues song/video: from Flocabulary.com, this fun song teaches four ways to teach unknown words using context clues - synonyms, antonyms, explanations and examples.
Anchor Charts and Posters:
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Grade Level Expectations
(from Continuum of Literacy Learning, Fountas and Pinnell, 2012)
PreK
- recognize/locate sight words
- predict beginning letter of a word
- one-to-one correspondence (voice/print match)
Kindergarten
- recognize/locate sight words in isolation and within text
- ID/locate first and last letter of a word
- take apart and read CVC words
First Grade
- use letter-sound relationships in sequence
- automatically recognize/locate sight words
- use known words and word parts to solve unknown words (prefixes, suffixes, onset, rime, words within words)
- use multiple sources of information together (picture clues, context clues, phonics)
- break down/solve multisyllabic words
- use context to derive meaning
- word solving becomes more automatic
Second Grade
- use known words and word parts to solve unknown/more challenging words (prefixes, suffixes, onset, rime, words within words)
- use multiple sources of information together and to solve unknown/more challenging words and proper nouns (picture clues, context clues, phonics)
- notice interesting words (add to speaking and writing)
- use context clues to determine meaning for new vocabulary
- ID synonyms/antonyms
- break down and solve multisyllabic words
- solve content specific words using text features
- understand longer, descriptive words
Third Grade
- notice interesting words (add to speaking and writing)
- break down and solve multisyllabic words (with three or more syllables)
- understand positive and negative associations that words carry with them
- understand figurative language
- use context clues and background knowledge to derive word meaning
- ID words with multiple meanings
- read words that are hyphenated across pages and lines
- understand longer, descriptive words
- understand unusual use of words (idioms, onomatopoeia, etc.)
- understand words that stand for abstract idea (e.g. freedom)
Fourth Grade
- notice and record interesting words (add to speaking and writing)
- use context clues and background knowledge to derive meaning of academic and topic-related words
- understand positive and negative associations that words carry with them
- ID words with multiple meanings
- understand words that stand for abstract idea (e.g. freedom)
- understand unusual use of words (idioms, onomatopoeia, etc.)
- understand figurative language
- independently and flexibly solve unknown words
- break down and solve multisyllabic words (with three or more syllables)
- use context clues and background knowledge to derive word meaning for technical and content-specific words
- use glossaries, dictionaries, and pronunciation guides to solve words
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